title:
Disturbing Queerness: Theorizing Breastfeeding, Conceiving a Coalitional Project of Queer Politics
creator:
Chapman, Annalise
subject:
Academic theses.
description:
At the crux of this analysis is a project of disturbing, troubling, and expanding queerness so as to understand how pregnancy, breastfeeding, and maternity may signal not the ultimate conformity or the ultimate heteronormativity, but rather may be conceived as inherently queer. Using Sara Ahmed’s (2019) theorizations of “use” and “queer use” and examining Maggie Nelson’s work of “autotheory” "The Argonauts," CBC Television’s comedy series "Workin’ Moms," and the Office on Women’s Health’s “It’s only natural” informational campaign, I intervene in ongoing debates about the theory and the praxis of queerness by proposing a more capacious conceptualization of queerness as more a process, a practice, a condition, a relationality, and less an identity, an argument anchored in and evidenced by the relations of pregnancy, breastfeeding, and maternity. Indeed, I contend that pregnancy, breastfeeding, and maternity are intrinsically queer conditions of relationality, in which the queer use of the reproducing body/subject is occasioned, in such a way that the notion of queerness is fundamentally queered and the potentiality of a coalitional project of queer politics is affirmed.
publisher:
Simmons University (Boston, Mass.)
contributor:
date:
2020
type:
Text
format:
1 PDF (44 Pages)
identifier:
td_gcs_2020_ac
source:
language:
English
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coverage:
rights:
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